{"id":42199,"date":"2024-08-01T05:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/southampton-first-uk-child-has-surgery-in-robot-device-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T05:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:18:47","slug":"southampton-first-uk-child-has-surgery-in-robot-device-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=42199","title":{"rendered":"Southampton: First UK child has surgery in robot device trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;This has been three years in the making so it&#8217;s really exciting for the whole paediatric urology team,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that this is the start of seeing an increase in minimally invasive surgery for children all around the UK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Versius system, developed by Cambridge-based CMR Surgical Ltd, aims to increase precision through the use of small surgical instruments, robot-assisted manual control and a magnified screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several NHS sites and a private hospital in the UK already use Versius for operations on adult patients. The system is also in use in other countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reece&#8217;s mother Elizabeth said: &#8220;Reece was nervous about his operation before, but we showed him pictures and he was quite excited to know a robot was operating on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His father Ashley said: &#8220;It sounds scary on paper, but seeing his recovery in the short span that it&#8217;s been &#8211; you only want what&#8217;s best for your children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Brownlee said the procedure went smoothly and Reece was able to go home the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UHS chief medical officer Paul Grundy said: &#8220;We are proud to be at the heart of the research that will hopefully lay the foundations for others in the near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9e9zym7x57o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He said: &#8220;This has been three years in the making so it&#8217;s really exciting for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1011,1964,1963,1962,1380,1965],"class_list":["post-42199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-child","tag-device","tag-robot","tag-southampton","tag-surgery","tag-trial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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